Keith Bell, Texas State Representative from the 4th district | www.bellfortexas.com
Keith Bell, Texas State Representative from the 4th district | www.bellfortexas.com
More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to the dedication of certain surplus state revenue for ad valorem tax relief’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
This bill mandates that, by the 90th day following the end of each state fiscal biennium, the Texas comptroller must deposit into a general revenue account an amount equal to half of any surplus general revenue exceeding the comptroller's revenue estimate for that biennium. The funds in this account can only be appropriated by the legislature for ad valorem tax relief purposes. The provisions of this act will first apply to the state fiscal biennium starting September 1, 2027, and the act itself comes into effect on September 1, 2025.
Keith Bell, chair of the House Committee on General Investigating and member of the House Committee on S/C on Workforce, proposed no more bills during the 89(R) legislative session.
Bell graduated from Dallas Baptist University in 2013 with a BBS.
Keith Bell is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 4th House district. He replaced previous state representative Lance Gooden in 2019.
Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.
You can read more about the bills and other measures here.
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